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Anthropologist, author and speaker, Jeremy Narby, talks about his perspectives on ayahuasca and environmental activism after visiting the Temple and learning about the work of our non profit sister organization, Alianza Arkana.
While undertaking anthropological fieldwork in the Pichis Valley of the Peruvian Amazon, Narby became intrigued by the local community’s claim that they received their phenomenal biochemical knowledge under the influence of hallucinogens.
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Jeremy Narby on science & shamanism.
Short piece of an interview with Jeremy Narby on the mystery of consciousness and biospheric television. NY April 12, 2008.
The renowned “anthropologist under Amazonian influence” and indigenous rights activist Jeremy Narby, author of such classics as The Cosmic Serpent and Intelligence in Nature, considers the intelligence of living beings and wrestles with his own culture’s anthropocentric concepts.
Jeremy Narby discusses the growing popularity of ayahuasca in the Western world, what that means for indigenous shamans, and how that can increase our collective connection with nature.
In the Amazon, shamans do not talk in terms of hallucinogens but of tools for communicating with other life-forms. Ayahuasca, for example, is first and foremost a means of breaking down the barrier that separates humans from other species, allowing us to communicate with them.
In 1995 I published a book called The Cosmic Serpent that dealt with ayahuasca and other subjects. The enthusiasm of many readers took me by surprise. In the book I describe ayahuasca as foul-tasting and my experience drinking it as an ordeal involving vomiting and frightening visions of serpents.
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.